WinRAR 5.0 Beta 2 fix bug in previous release

WinRAR released the latest 5.0 version of the second beta release yesterday, just one day from the release of Beta 1, and Beta 2 urgently fixes important bugs that existed in previous versions. This WinRAR 5.0 brings a series of new features, including new compression algorithms.

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WinRAR 5.0 New Features:

1, the new RAR 5.0 compression format;

2, RAR 5.0 compression algorithm has a large change in 64-bit version, the largest compression dictionary size to 1GB, when the file is created 32-bit version can use the 256MB compression dictionary, 32-bit and 64-bit version in the packaging file can use any dictionary size, including 1GB;

3, RAR 5.0 compressed file time is stored as UTC time, but not the previous local time;

4, RAR 5.0 recovery records based on Reed-solomon error correction code;

5, Test command can verify the RAR 5.0 recovery record of the message;

6, RAR 5.0 encryption algorithm from the CBC mode AES-128 change to AES-256;

7, RAR 5.0 documents can use 256-bit BLAKE2SP hash;

8, removed some functions;

9, "Set Password" and "Dictionary size" two options are now moved to the "General" option;

10. You can now use the "Save symbolic Link as a link" in advanced to save and restore NTFS symbolic links;

11, XZ file format added only to allow the extraction of support;

12, RAR and zip file maximum path length increased to 2048 characters.

WinRAR can be said to be the most well-known file decompression tool, complete support RAR and zip files, in addition to support ARJ, CAB, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZ, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO format of the decompression work. However, this software is not free, the first time users can receive a dozens of-day free trial period.